John Legend Is Your New Google Assistant—Listen for Yourself

John Legend Is Your New Google Assistant—Listen for Yourself

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https://www.wired.com/story/john-legend-your-google-assistant-listen-yourself/

Google started an unusual artificial intelligence experiment this month. If you instruct its Siri-style virtual assistant to “talk like a Legend,” it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend. The singer helped demonstrate a promising, but contentious, use case for AI.

Software that can impersonate people’s voices can make computers more fun to talk with, but in the wrong hands might be used to make so-called “deepfakes” intended to deceive. How good is voice cloning technology now? Google’s project provides a snapshot.